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> With retroshare all resources are gone if you delete those, with Freenet & GNUnet you simply can't delete anything. Sure, that's true and the advantage of Fr
by northwest 13y ago
> With retroshare all resources are gone if you delete those, with Freenet & GNUnet you simply can't delete anything.
Sure, that's true and the advantage of Freenet and GNUnet. The flip side of the caching is of course that this comes at a cost: It takes a lot more resources to have this kind of redundancy.
RetroShare btw does let you download files anonymously from friends-of-friends etc. if the "owner" agrees to it. (You only have to know your immediate friends.)
- Sami_Lehtinen 13y agoYes, but redundancy also means that resources are never unavailable due overload etc. As hacker news users know, sites with most interesting new content are often down. With efficient caching, that simply won't happen. Btw. BitTorrent could utilize caching also much more efficiently. I know RS allows TurtleHopping, which is extremely inefficient method of transferring data, compared to GNUnets solution. With GNUnet you can transfer data directly with the source anonymously, while also at the very same time creating new sources for that data.